This article and the comments are quite disturbing. The underline part of this article is racism at it's best. If Chris Brown was 100% white, this article would not exist. The author would never take the time to criticize nor encourage the public to excommunicate Chris from pop culture. Clearly this author is on a mission to influence Chris' down fall. She wants his career to slowly come to a halt. She's hoping he's dropped from his label and completely shunned by the public. In her mind, Chris is undeserving of his success. Main stream media wants Chris to continuously discuss the incident. As long as you view him as an abuser, you forget about his attempt at redemption. Maybe his lyrics about Rihanna are inappropriate and insensitive but, they're just foolish words. I find it strange that Rihanna chose to make a music video reenacting the horrific incident. Did her music video have to feature a Chris Brown look-a-like? If you want to get past the incident, then why put so much energy into re-living it? Chris has moved on, he's in a 2 year relationship with his girlfriend KT. I believe Chris is going through growing pains. He'll continue to make mistakes and learn from them. Just like the rest of us, we're still living and learning as time goes by.

im tryna understand why people mostly "white people" but some black always seems to have to talk about chris brown, thats what i wannna know??? it hurts yall so bad that even though he did such a horrible thing, he's still successful and has people (his fans, other celebs) in his corner still. yes what he did was wrong and he paid the ultimate price 4 it ( you may not like how he paid that price, it is what it is). than you wanna go and talk about his fans. fyi, most of his fan dont condone what he did or would joke about something like that because as his fan you should know that that is something he takes seriously not as a joke but sadly to say there are some fans thats either to young to understand or to immature to understand the seriousness of it. and if we want to forgive and still support him and keep it moving than thats what we're gonna do because his music has NOTHING to do with his personal life. and if the victim wants to forgive him so that she can move on, than good for her. there's nothing wrong with forgiving a person, GOD says to forgive not bully or whayever yall do to him. he young and he's gonna make mistakes.

Why's society okay with fugitive_from_justice_director Roman Polanski who raped a 13yr old girl & continually acts like Chris Brown's unique for domestic violence?? Anyone remember Sean Penn bt Madonna or Mickey Rourke bt Carre' Otis?
CB has lost all the endorsements he has - he makes his cash on talent as the consumers who choose to buy his goods see it - i guess his name does a lot for internet traffic, tv ratings & paper circulation - i wish domestic abusers like Manny Ramirez get as much scrutiny as CB.Meanwhile it's turned into a CB witch hunt while domestic abuse cases in the USA keeps rising - can't blame him for that!!!

GMichael, thanks for your message. I actually did mention that Chris Brown had had a difficult childhood; I also mentioned how this is being cited by some #TeamBreezy fans as a carte blanche for Brown's actions whilst simultaneously minimising (or sometimes glorifying) his violence. I don't really follow #TeamBreezy logic there - he had an abusive childhood which justifies an otherwise unjustifiable act, but that act wasn't that bad anyway?
The 'abusive childhood' line is curious when it comes to gender issues. In pop culture, I think having an abusive or difficult childhood is often used as a way to smear women in a subtle sting of faux 'concern' for them (like the phrase "damaged goods" both as a general slut-shaming term and implying psychological 'damage'; the tired comic trope of "girl with daddy issues" in popular culture) so I find it strange when the same bad-childhood line used as a put-down to women ("damaged goods"; "daddy issues") is then used to justify (I get 'explain', I don't get justify) male violence.
Yes to get to the root of the problem of a kind of construction of contemporary masculinity that's bound to violence you do need to talk about the social causes of it, you need to understand intergenerational cycles of violence, and there are instances where male violence is in a sad (but not justified) way an expression of power*less*ness, when your sheer physical force is the only thing you have to resort to. But it's about how different power dynamics play out in different situations -- trapped in a car with a violent man, 'bad childhood' isn't a trump card, and the woman's success (or sluttiness, or whatever else 'provokes' it) out-in-the-world is not some magic passport out of the power-dynamics in that situation which so clearly lie with the physical strength of the man.
You seem to imply I don't think Brown can ever reform or be forgiven -- I don't agree; people do make mistakes and can reform. But you also say Brown worked hard for four years to prove he has changed (and yeah, 'worked to prove' he's changed is very different from actually changing - a lot of abusers go to great lengths to 'convince' that they have changed and deserve another chance) and is now a 'different man'. Do those lyrics talking about 'smashing' his ex sound like a changed man to you? My point is that his comeback has come with little real contrition -- a hangdog-face half-apology while still justifying himself and showing little respect for a woman he violently assaulted. And his fans making excuses for his violence aren't doing him any favours.

I'm sorry 'GMICHAEL' but your response is pathetic, fan-base BS. Heather hasn't GLOSSED OVER his past in this article at all; she addresses it head on.

You talk about him 'being left for dead', but this is just Hollywood talk - he was barely out of the limelight in the interim period, and, face it, you know nothing other than what has been reported in the gutter press.

Anyone who puts "SMH" and "#teambreezy" in comments on an article like this should be ignored anyway... this is serious, not some platform for your weak-kneed celeb-simpering. You should be ashamed of yourself.

I like how you GLOSSED OVER the fact that he grew up in a violent home watching his mama getting beat down by a man(he admitted this long before he beat up rihanna). I also like how the media GLOSSED OVER all the hard work he put in trying to prove he's a changed man in the two years before he released F.A.M.E...and 4 yrs later u expect him to thank the peole who left him for dead for his success? While i do think biting an choking were extreme(i can't help but factor in his background), he didn't go from bruce banner to the hulk for no reason..he has been with different women ever since then. And if recidivism is a given, i don't think all those anger management counsellors should have jobs.SMH.#teambreezy